on line video competition to recreate moments from Martha Graham’s “Clytemnestra”
Blakeley White-McGuire as Cassandra
CASSANDRA is a Prophetess and mistress of King Agamemnon. She warns the people that the King is being murdered, but is not believed.
With this video i would like to recollocate the ancient Greek myth of Cassandra in the actual world scenario, as its story has still relevance today. A modern Cassandra will probably keep on announcing forthcoming tragedies, sufferings and iniquities all over the world from Kenya to Darfur, from Brasil to Afghanistan,from Europe to USA.
But I also wanted to give a sign of hope, because we can believe to what Cassandra’s foresees. We MUST develop our way of seeing thing, we have the right to think differently and operate accordingly to prevent harmful events that will just ruin our world.
we should follow more artists way of viewing things.
we should pursue beauty, love, care for human beings and for the whole planet.
Behind my personal Cassandra remash there’s a confident message of HOPE.
OMINOUS MUSINGS
Entry for Clytemnestra Remash Challenge
Poem by : Sara Miller-Hornick
The picador of Dubyaville
lifts his portent lance
The serpent frequently eats its tail
to perpetuate cyclic dance.
Banana oil excuses
spew from bourgeois gates
From the crowd a commoner watches
as government controls the fates
Empty pockets are his flags,
blood his crimson cape.
The question is who will win this round?
Will the bull perish or escape?
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The Martha Graham Dance Company- ReMash Challenge Inspired by Cassandra.
Tudor Pavelescu’s remix of the Graham Dance Company footage of Martha Graham’s Clytemnestra. Original footage by Graham Dance Company. Additional images, music by Tudor Pavelescu
“Cassandra is a Prophetess and mistress of King Agamemnon. She warns the people that the King is being murdered, but is not believed. In this solo, Cassandra sees visions of evil and shrieks a warning that the King is being murdered.”
Blakeley White-McGuire as Cassandra
Audio track is “Overglazed” by The Breeders
the female dancer (Blakeley White-McGuire) is playing the part of Cassandra, a prophetess who sees visions of evil. she warns the people that the king is being murdered.
the male dancer (Kerville Jack) plays the part of the Messenger of Death, which is not a specific character from Greek Drama but was created by Martha Graham to create an atmosphere of foreboding and inevitability. this abstract figure can represent many things: Fate, Fear, Guilt, Inevitability, Karma, etc. in this solo, the Messenger of Death sets the tone for Grahams telling of the Agamemnon saga in Clytemnestra.
a symbolic metaphor was established between the characters and our planet’s many warnings of the serious and eventual irreversible consequences of climate change.
